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This week we’re eating… super easy tomato, chick pea and spinach soup

As regular readers of my blog will know, we eat a lot of soup in our house. I love it, and as a result, so do my three children. I came up with this recipe a couple of years ago when I was craving soup but didn’t have any fresh ingredients in the house. I always have tinned tomatoes chick peas in the cupboard, and I had a bag of wilting spinach in the fridge, so I put it all together with a chopped up onion and came up with this.

I made up a big batch of this yesterday – I used four tins of tomatoes, three tins of chickpeas, half a bag of spinach and two onions (I would have ideally added another one but I didn’t have any more in the house) – and it made enough soup to feed our family of five for three meals. That’s amazing considering the total cost of the ingredients was less than £6 and all of it was stuff I had hanging around the house anyway.

The other thing I like about this recipe is that you can add in any other veg that is past its best. After stage 1 of the recipe below, I chucked in two carrots (peeled and sliced) that were looking rather sorry for themselves, and a few cherry tomatoes that were left in the bottom of the fridge.